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TL;DR
- An Android Authority teardown has revealed a few key visible modifications coming to the Google Photographs app.
- It seems just like the app will get a brand new video participant that includes bigger controls and gestures to rewind and fast-forward.
- The app may additionally get an overhauled search outcomes web page, however I’m not utterly bought on this modification.
Google is engaged on wide-spanning visible modifications to Android 16 utilizing its Materials 3 Expressive type. We’ve since found that a number of Google apps are getting these tweaks. Now, it seems like Google Photographs is getting a few visible updates as properly.
An APK teardown helps predict options which will arrive on a service sooner or later based mostly on work-in-progress code. Nonetheless, it’s doable that such predicted options might not make it to a public launch.
We carried out a teardown of the most recent model of the Google Photographs app (model 7.32.0.765953717) and enabled a few redesigned UI components. Maybe probably the most notable change is the overhauled video participant, as seen beneath.
Essentially the most distinguished change is the bigger participant timeline, full with a vertical line for a scrubbing icon. The video period now seems above the timeline, too, together with the pause and quantity controls. One other notable change is that the brand new video participant now shows the file’s time and date on the prime of the web page, whereas the solid icon has disappeared. We’ve additionally acquired an Add to button on the backside, alongside the prevailing Share, Edit, and Trash buttons.
Yet another nifty addition to the brand new Google Photographs video participant UI is the power to carry on the left or proper sides of the video to rewind or fast-forward, respectively. You possibly can verify this out within the third picture above, which exhibits a 2x alert on the prime of the display.
These aren’t the one UI modifications we’ve noticed in Google Photographs. The corporate can be engaged on a redesigned search outcomes web page. You possibly can view the previous and new pages beneath.
The brand new search outcomes web page brings the search bar to the underside of the display whereas additionally grouping the “greatest match” objects in a sq. gallery. This gallery takes up simply over half of the display, with the remainder of the display exhibiting latest matches by date (e.g. April 3, January 26). Nonetheless, you may faucet the final picture on this sq. gallery to disclose an expanded gallery view.
In contrast, the present Google Photographs search outcomes web page exhibits all matches in a single large gallery whereas letting you turn between Most up-to-date and Greatest match. The present gallery clearly exhibits way more matches directly from the get-go in comparison with the brand new UI. This implies that you just’ll discover your required outcomes extra rapidly within the present UI.
This isn’t the primary time we found a redesigned Google Photographs video participant. We uncovered a redesign again in October 2024, however that tweaked participant wasn’t really launched. Due to this fact, there’s no assure that this most up-to-date visible overhaul will see the sunshine of day, both. Nevertheless it actually appears consistent with Google’s Materials 3 Expressive stylings, so we’re optimistic a few extensive launch sooner or later.
This isn’t the one Google app slated to obtain a visible overhaul for Android 16. We’ve additionally uncovered upcoming design modifications for apps like Gmail, the Cellphone app, and Google One.
